[Pythonmac-SIG] pythonw

[has]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>>>It is not possible to solve this problem without changing the way
>>>Python gets installed (making /usr/bin/python a fork-exec stub or shell
>>>script)
>>
>>Any reason for not doing that then? Eliminating this wart would be good.
>
>It would break bundlebuilder's --standalone option, probably other things.

How so? The change should only add functionality to /usr/bin/python 
so that /usr/bin/pythonw is no longer required, allowing the latter 
to be deprecated and eventually removed. If changing /usr/bin/python 
itself affects BB, patch BB to reflect the change. (Or just deprecate 
BB too and tell folk not to use it to build new apps any more. This 
should be of relatively little inconvenience to users.)

BTW, what about the sourceforge patches? Would one or both of those 
solve the problem any better?

Cheers,

has
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